This overview of how our ice season is shrinking is a fantastic resource & the state has many community science monitoring projects including “ice out” where the public monitors dates the ice leaves. www.pca.state.mn.us/news-and-sto...

Did you know that making the moral case against fossil fuel use has been identified as a societal tipping point? Glad to see @greenfaith.bsky.social doing it this week in the US!

Fantastic plastic pollution study that takes a look at how infrastructure reduces plastic pollution into the environment. While consumption may drive increased production, plastic is most likely to escape into the environment with poor waste management. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

On the list: DEI, Equity, environmental Justice, Climate Change, Diversity, Greenhouse Gas, Clean Energy, Solar Energy… grist.org/language/cli...

A win! Driven by students who want to know how to act in meaningful ways. www.adirondackexplorer.org/environment/...

Nice article by @jessimckenzi.bsky.social about this really weird paper on ocean heat content. This may be the new wave in climate denial since AI allows people to write science-y sounding papers that are completely bonkers pretty easily. thebulletin.org/2026/03/a-cl...

Angel Glacier in Jasper NP, Alberta.

Happy world glacier day! Here are a few from Alaska & Antarctica. Glaciers store most of the world’s freshwater and are sentinels of climate change.

See what I mean... it's MID MARCH! 🫠

After watching Chasing Time I found pictures from 1997 on Solheimjokul. The film evokes that all of the ice in my pictures is gone, except maybe the very top of the last one. The first picture is David Mickelson, UW Madison geology professor and his son John.

So many cool classes engaging sustainability at Carleton! From a music class with a sound walk across landscapes, to policy briefs on data centers, to language classes that integrate reflection on intergenerational changes in sustainable development, to a CS class building climate dashboards.

Excellent commentary by colleague Devavani Chatterjea, “Expanding nuclear power production while cutting safety protocols is a recipe for disaster” on the need for safety measures and environmental protection. www.minnpost.com/letters/2026...

Binary experiences such as days with enough snow to ski in the Arb are really good at illustrating the thresholds we cross. I find myself cataloguing binaries frequently related to water having moved away from MN where I grew up & then returned after 2 decades. www.sciencenews.org/article/clim...

Fantastic to see our hometown superintendent at “Bright Future for Rural K-12 STEM Education in Minnesota”. What a great place to learn about the opportunities in education including place-based and ecosystem models also applicable to colleges. We can feature cutting edge tech & connect w hearts.

And only 19% of Minnesotan municipalities have plans to address climate adaptation needed with lost snow and winter economies, increased flooding, droughts, and air quality. www.kaaltv.com/news/survey-...

Oversaturated and retracting media presence for climate change doesn’t surprise me. If you can, now is a good time as ever to communicate about the climate change we experience and the policies we need. We keep having “never before conditions”. grist.org/language/glo...

Enjoying catching up with my @carleton.edu colleague and the Carnegie Sustainability Elective crew supporting colleges in advancing their sustainability work, whether they are all in like we are, or just developing where they will go together. I am grateful this national support structure exists!

From one of our most prestigious and well respected journals, the Lancet. “ The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm.” www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

It's not getting much press coverage, but last month the Department of Education quietly stopped fighting a lawsuit challenging the infamous DEI "Dear Colleague" letter. This effectively means the letter is unenforceable. This is a huge win that deserves celebrating, and we can thank unions!

Minnesota's Senate Bill 3659 would, if enacted, establish a climate literacy seal "to recognize graduating high school students ... who demonstrate mastery in climate literacy disciplines and attain green skills or technical green skills." share.google/u5Ip6e2l9iWU...

NSF has put out a “Dear Colleague Letter” asking how to dismantle NCAR, the premier public atmospheric sciences center in the US. We must reject the premise. As a dedicated center bringing together scientists across disciplines and across the world, NCAR science has saved lives for over 65 years.

“We invited scientists from other countries to join our field programs to take advantage of our logistics. Now, it is our turn to come begging to other countries, not so much as payback, but… as a way to help us bridge this difficult time in American science.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/c...

The next time these caves form could be amongst the last, so I will go north… lost winter as sustained periods of cold & stillness are fewer days and further apart. www.wpr.org/news/open-wa...

Concerned about ICE's $45 billion plan to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers? This is what they'll look like inside. From ICE's plan for the Social Circle, GA facility. Each little dot: a person. www.socialcirclega.gov/home/showpub...

Last years Earth Day theme in Northfield focused on flooding & engaging for a thriving riverfront development & dam removal. As that project starts to shape, this year’s Earth Day will focus on advocacy for grid updates & what we still can do now.

🤯⚒️🧪❄️ "Preliminary dating, based on the presence of fossilized algae that only existed during specific geological periods, suggests that the core represents an archive of the past 23 million years" in West Antarctica

“Pritzker noted that Trump is making life harder for everyday Americans w tariffs that raise costs for working families & small businesses; trade wars that are devastating farmers; cuts to healthcare, nutritional assistance, & education; increased bureaucratic demands on states; & low job creation.”

@climategenorg.bsky.social I will miss you. It was great to interact in the Midwest Climate Collab & I had great Carleton students who were inspired in high school by your youth climate advocacy programs, & teachers in your summer institutes. We absolutely must #teachclimate climategen.org

Thanks to EDF for this fact sheet that makes clear what the cost is to wallets & lives of repealing the Endangerment Finding & our capacity to regulate GHG emissions. State by state results show 21 billion in added fuel & 16 billion to health in MN by 2055. library.edf.org/AssetLink/81...

The Northfield grid map is disappointing, red areas we can’t connect solar build year over year. My child came home from a city council meeting updating council on how this lack of utility upgrades meant climate efforts have stalled. www.xcelenergy.com/hosting_capa...

What a time to roll back national accountability. Pick a state, a country, the world. coloradosun.com/2026/02/16/s...

This is difficult to read & important to read. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Taking the advice of a Carleton history professor & ordering Madhouse at the End of the Earth to continue my obsession with icy adventure reads…

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

The latest #Changemaker Q&A features environmental sociologist Dorceta Taylor who is a fierce champion of early-career Black researchers and their contributions to environmental, climate change and conservation science. As told to @virginiagewin.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Heartbreaking. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/t...

Cool model! Students expanding climate action planning statewide. www.psu.edu/news/penn-st...

Please call the Senate they will vote very soon on whether to allow dangerous sulfide-ore copper mining on the edges of Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Tell them to vote NO on House Joint Resolution 140 (H.J. Res. 140).

what a shot

This is such a great story. These gamers decided to play it safe by aiming to raise $30,000. Within the first 15 minutes they had already raised $50,000. By the end of the livestream, they raised over a quarter million dollars. www.mprnews.org/story

"the EPA announced it would no longer calculate the economic benefits of lives saved when setting limits [on pollution]...From now on, the agency will only tally the costs to industry. The benefits to human beings? Too uncertain to count, according to the EPA."

My friend and former neighbor in Springfield, posted that she fears this piece is very much foreshadowing. Acts of humanity and mobilization matter.

Love guides like this, events, and kindness now because it is moral. “Showing up in a warm, kind, generous way feels like the most active resistance we can do right now,” Kampschroer says. “Showing up with warmth feels very Minnesotan.” www.minnesotamonthly.com/general/minn...

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

I’m hearing from friends in Springfield, our home for a decade, how scared their kids are. The early hate by JD Vance & bot disinformation stirred up more hate incidents, and need for more protection at schools. Sending love from Minnesota. www.daytondailynews.com/news/springf...

Morning Joy! Minnesota stained glass window creates a rainbow over Camp 18 on Juneau Icefield, Tlingit Ahni.

The climate space is no stranger to mis and disinformation tactics of the White House. It’s good to point out these erasures, bad substitutions and the data archivists working to protect legitimate information. www.context.news/climate-risk...

Today from Minnesota Vicious cold weather We chanted “No ICE, No ICE” Love instead of hate